Strategies for cutting your water bill

According to the Southwest Florida Water Management District, restaurants use an average of 5,800 gallons of water per day. That’s more than two million gallons of water per year for just one restaurant. Another study estimates that each meal served in a restaurant requires the use of six to 30 gallons of water.
Not only are these huge amounts of water, they come with growing price tags. The cost of water is going up in virtually all areas of the United States, and in some ...

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Patti DiVita (not verified)

on May 30, 2012

This is a great article about water conservation in the restaurant world that all restaurant owners should read. Regardless of whether they want to buy the products mentioned here or not, they should be made aware of water waste in restaurants.

Even by changing staff behaviors, water can be conserved. For example when thawing food, the water pressure doesn't have to be blasting, just as long as the water is moving. There are so many ways that we could save water in restaurants and also our homes.

My mission is to make people in or out of the restaurant industry aware that we really do need to make water conservation and care more of a priority. By using a movie that is set in the restaurant industry that has already been seen all over the world, this makes sense.